The Future of the Humanities: Experimenting

Authors

  • Samuel Weber Northwestern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.11.20.1

Keywords:

Humanities, university, repetition, experimenting

Abstract

Do the Humanities have a future? Is there a place for the study of literature, of art, of language and of philosophy in a world progressively dominated by an economic logic of profit and loss? What possible purpose can such disciplines fulfill in the face of technologies that seem to be rapidly rendering obsolete what was perhaps the most defining function of ‘man’ at least since the European Renaissance: the function of productive labor? The future of the Humanities in a world of virtualization and of globalization cannot reside in the continued propagation of a model of unity and totality for societies or nations.

Author Biography

  • Samuel Weber, Northwestern University
    Doctor (Ph.D.), Cornell University-Estados Unidos. Profesor de Humanidades, Northwestern University-Estados Unidos. Profesor visitante, European Graduate School, en Saas Fee-Suiza. Traductor al inglés de Benjamin, Adorno y Derrida.

References

Derrida, J. (1988). Limited Inc. Trad. de Samuel Weber. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.

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Kierkegaard, S. (2009). La repetición, un ensayo de psicología experimental. Introducción de Jorge Palacio – traducción directa del danés y notas de Demetrio Gutiérrez Rivero. Madrid: Alianza.

Schelling, F. W. J. (1990). Vorlesungen uber die Methode des akademischen Studium. Hamburgo: Meiner.

Schelling, F. W. J. (2008). Lecciones sobre el método de los estudios académi-cos. Trad. de E. Tabernig. Buenos Aires: Losada.

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Published

2014-06-10

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Vol. 11 No. 20 (2014)

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Weber, S. (2014). The Future of the Humanities: Experimenting. Co-herencia, 11(20), 13-38. https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.11.20.1